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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of convey.

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Examples

  • That these massive gentlemen do not understand that in 1804 the term conveyed notions of sexual perversion is hardly their fault, but the filmmakers rather ungraciously set them up to make the error and entirely omit the point for viewers.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David O. Stewart 2011

  • When the New York Times briefly reported on it, even the title conveyed the controversy: Low-Sat Diet Ineffective, Study Finds.

    Kristin Wartman: Change in Season: Why Salt Doesn't Deserve Its Bad Rap Kristin Wartman 2011

  • Her expression conveyed the sense that she really didn't want to be forced to be creative.

    A Girl You Couldn't Hurt Con Chapman 2011

  • When the New York Times briefly reported on it, even the title conveyed the controversy: Low-Sat Diet Ineffective, Study Finds.

    Kristin Wartman: Change in Season: Why Salt Doesn't Deserve Its Bad Rap Kristin Wartman 2011

  • Apparently one thing that never changed between us was the ability to know what the other was thinking, because he gave me a look and a little smile, and his expression conveyed to me exactly what he really wanted—and what he was doing.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • The word conveyed no particular gender, and it sounded so distant that it echoed a bit.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Apparently one thing that never changed between us was the ability to know what the other was thinking, because he gave me a look and a little smile, and his expression conveyed to me exactly what he really wanted—and what he was doing.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • The word conveyed no particular gender, and it sounded so distant that it echoed a bit.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Apparently one thing that never changed between us was the ability to know what the other was thinking, because he gave me a look and a little smile, and his expression conveyed to me exactly what he really wanted—and what he was doing.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

  • Apparently one thing that never changed between us was the ability to know what the other was thinking, because he gave me a look and a little smile, and his expression conveyed to me exactly what he really wanted—and what he was doing.

    I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009

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